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Lethn is correct. Don't be fooled: inflation is not "caused by" commodity prices; commodity prices are evidence of inflation. Inflation in the 70's was caused by the same thing that is causing it today, and the same thing that has been causing it since 1913. That's right, it's caused by...

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I have a great deal of experience in currency futures but minimal in spot trading. So when trading spot FX in IB, is it possible to actually be the best bid or best offer? In other words is it possible to actually execute buying on the bid or selling on the offer? I'm not asking if getting...

The trade is as I outlined. Putting options into the mix will increase your risk, not mitigate it. I don't care if you call it "delta" or "vega" or "theta" or any other factor you'd like to add. It's adding risk. Was I unclear about this?

A currency forward must have this carry baked into it, otherwise the couterparty trading the forward is getting automatically ripped off by you! In other words think of it in steps: 1) take the loan in JPY 2) sell the JPY to buy USD 3) make a loan in USD 4) The loans in step 1) and step 3)...

Hello, First of all, hello to the forum. This is my first post and I look forward to participating in a lot of the discussions here. I had a brief chat with this firm via email. The HR person said he had been sorting through a pile of "hundreds" of resumes. My thought was that if...